The Secrets Behind Sand-Bending

If one type of element

bending

technique remains a mystery in the Avatar universe, it is

sand

. Bending bow used only by the C Wong tribes has rarely left the borders of the desert. The problem is that

bending

a grain of

sand

is child's play and controlling thousands at the same time. time requires a very particular set of skills in today's avatar video i will be talking about sand bending, how it works, common uses and its relationship with jing, now get on your sand sailors and let's get started in avatar the last airbender and the legend of korra sand.

Benders are actually rare and scattered throughout the Sewang Desert, what could be the reason why sand bending is not widespread? It's certainly more common than lava bending, as we only recorded a few earth benders in the entire franchise who can master that power. The same applies to Bloodbending and Lightningbending or at least it's the case during Yang's time, when you think about it, amazing earthbenders, you can lift giant rocks like the rock or the self-proclaimed best earth bender in the world, toff bae fong, we never really see sand. bending to an impressive degree if they can control such massive elements then logically they can bend a single grain of smell the problem here does not seem to be in the material itself but in the amount of it, earth is the element of substance and earth benders They are known for adopting a fighting style that can be quite rigid and focused on brute force, using the same technique with sand could be useful to blind the enemy by throwing sand everywhere, but to actually bend the sand and not just folded sand like the earth.

It requires a particular form of skill. What makes it so difficult for earthbenders to discover the

secrets

behind sand bending is that the technique used to achieve such a trick lies in water bending. I know, it's strange, but sand bending is only possible through a bending art form. close to how waterbenders push and pull water during battle, sand should be considered in terms of flow and the bender should focus on lightness rather than heaviness in terms of difficulty level, you can also think about bent sand by comparing it with the shape. toff discovers how to bend metal in order to bend it, an earthbender has to focus on the internal components of the object and locate the small amount of earth impurities that are still part of the metal.

These fragments are quite small and difficult to detect, but once an earthbender can locate them all. From these small pieces of earth inside any type of metal besides pure ones like platinum, they can gain control over the metal by moving the earth particles inside it to understand how sand bending works. He can apply this idea, but to thousands of small, free-floating pieces of land. Split rock and mineral particles. The fact that these pieces are not held together by another material such as metal makes it very difficult to master. That's why Toff couldn't defend himself against the C Wong tribe who ended up kidnapping Appa while Washi Tong's library was sinking.

In the desert scene, you need to have the mentality of waterbending when trying to master the sub-element. Toff complained that the sand element made his bending abilities confusing due to the fact that he is quite cunning. Sand bending goes against how earthbenders are traditionally trained. be immovable and direct when in combat mode they are taught to become unbreakable pillars of strength, so there are a couple of things that some earthbenders could learn from other elemental benders that could facilitate the way they handle the arena. Now let's change the concept of jing as used in the avatar universe to find out what makes sand bending different from other elements but also similar to one in particular to understand the relationship between earth bending and water bending We have to turn to the concept of Jing: each elemental bending technique is linked to a positive, negative or neutral Jing in the avatar universe, the concept helps categorize how fighters direct their energy during battle.

This energy can be channeled internally and its expression can be seen externally through action. In the case of positive jing, it can be described as an aggressive jing and an advanced way of directing energy. Firebenders who most often use violent tactics during battle are said to have a positive attitude. A firebender will rarely wait for his opponent to strike first and, through a combination of aerial kicks and punches, will bathe his opponents in flames. Everything about firebending is about directing your energy forward while minimizing defense. The only real defense that Firebenders are known to practice is to evade incoming blows and use full fire attacks against any element thrown at them, perhaps also with Uncle Iro the same positive jing.

The philosophy can be applied to most Fire Nation citizens. Zuko did not hesitate to speak his mind, which led to his scarred face. Azula literally has no filter and Rangi from the Kyoshi duology novels has the temper of an erupting volcano when it comes to negative jing. Airbenders are the ones who exercise the most, it goes hand in hand with air nomads, as they see every life as precious no matter what sin people have committed, compared to positive jing practitioners like firebenders who they advance no matter what airbenders are benders. Evasion Being fast and agile Airbenders will do anything to avoid conflict and often use acrobatics to trick their opponents into hitting themselves or simply falling through negative jing.

Airbenders direct their energy backwards and will rarely engage in battle unless absolutely necessary like us. I have seen Aang fighting Ozir Tenzin against the red lotus when it comes to earth benders, they do not use positive or negative jing, they express their qi through what is called neutral jing according to the mad king boomi, this type of jing It can be summarized how to do it. In other words, nothing involves a lot of waiting, listening and analyzing the situation. An earthbender will usually wait for his opponent to take the first step before allowing him to approach him.

It could be one of the many reasons why the Fire Nation went through such a difficult time. By taking over the earth realm, their use of positive jing can spur them into action, which is a good thing, but it can also mean that a neutral jing practitioner can easily take advantage of their impulsive personality while a firebender runs towards an earthbender that the earthbender has. They have already assessed the situation and can respond appropriately by attacking or defending. In the case of water bending, they use both positive and negative jing, which to some extent causes them to use a neutral form of jing or at least navigate somewhere between the two. extremes of the jing spectrum while balancing both the positive and negative, let's look a little closer at the art of water bending to discover how surprisingly close the water bending technique is to sand bending in reality.

For starters, the c wong tribes are basically desert pirates. They travel mainly through the dunes using what they call sand sailors. These vessels are ship-like transportation devices equipped with yellow sails, while Cora used folded air to move the Asami Sand Sailor created from the remains of his flying ship. This is actually an unusual way to do it. So sand benders typically create rotating columns or, as I like to call them, little sand tornadoes that in turn generate wind. Now, in this scenario, it may be tempting to link sand benders with airbenders, but as Cora has demonstrated on several occasions, spinning columns of water are also common, as sand benders are still working with the element. earth, they adhere to the neutral jing and are somehow grounded, but this aspect must be channeled primarily through their legs and feet and their connection to the earth remains. strong, they have to adopt a more water bending based technique when it comes to moving sand, as I briefly mentioned before waterbenders or tai chi practitioners adopt the push and pull technique, they are inspired by the relationship between the moon and the ocean that create a kind of endless back and forth movement that allows a waterbender to change his defense into an attack by using his opponent's strength against him and turning it to his advantage.

We haven't seen many sandbenders charge into battle, but we have seen their combat styles. It would look like something between traditional earth bending and water bending techniques, a hardened body and a strong core, while adopting a more fluid and lighter way of thinking to turn each grain of sand into a fluid entity capable of powers still unknown, since we know that glass. Bending is possible thanks to Kiyoshi's shadow. It is very likely that a highly trained sand bender like avatar genji from fan project the legend of genji could take glass curvature to the next level if a sand bender were to speed up and rub the sand molecules together at high speed, they could create a shape of glass, this could turn the folded sand into a quite lethal weapon and even more so in the avatar state, imagine a shower of glass shards appearing from a sandstorm or a conflict style giant glass sword cloud, the only problem.

With that type of glass, without being mixed with sodium carbonate, it would dissolve in water. It's a bit ironic that the technique that sand bending is based on, at least in part, also comes from the bending art style that will most likely defeat them under our video user genji. Halo 20601 liked seeing Genji reconnect with his past lives with the help of Korra's spirit. This could be a pretty incredible journey into the spirit world and, like Gang did while healing from the Missoula attack, Genji could meet the past avatars one by one.